Salmond and an SNP team on trip to Iran

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Alex Salmond has led an SNP team to Iran in an attempt to improve Scottish-Iranian relations, the party announced yesterday.

The former first minister, who is now the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesman, took a small parliamentary delegation to Tehran with the aim of starting a dialogue to strengthen cultural and economic ties between the two countries.

He was accompanied by Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, the vice-chairwoman of the Commons all-party parliamentary group on Iran, and Bill Kidd, the SNP chief whip at Holyrood who co-chairs the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament group. Also on the trip was Azzam Mohammad, director of